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Cynthia Erivo reveals just how she was made green to play Wicked's Elphaba in behind the scene shots from new NBC special
Cynthia Erivo has revealed how she was made green to play Elphaba in the long-awaited musical adaptation of Wicked.
Starring in a new NBC programme titled Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked, the one hour special went behind the scenes and followed Cynthia and her co-stars Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey, as well as Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Yeoh as they filmed the highly anticipated musical. The Royal Festival Hall in London must have seen some sights in its 70-odd years but possibly nothing quite like Monday evening’s European premiere of Wicked, at which the lucky members of the audience were those not seated behind the drag queens dressed as Glinda, the Good Witch of the South. But it’s done with such tremendous pizazz, and the sets and costumes are so gloriously, preposterously, over the top, that I just about forgave the insanely long running-time and didn’t even object when a drag queen built like a prop forward, wearing a pink taffeta dress, leapt up with such excitement at the end that he elbowed me in the eye.
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